About Phil Gregory

Phil Gregory brings his knowledge of politics and business to Trenton where he covers the Statehouse and Central Jersey for both WBGO and WHYY.

For 10 years, he worked at Bloomberg Radio in New York City where he anchored coverage of several major events including the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 blackout. He also covered business and market news as a reporter from the New York Stock Exchange.

Phil is a native of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania and started his broadcast career at WAEB in Allentown, where he advanced to become News Director. He was an award-winning reporter and anchor at radio stations WPTR, WFLY and WROW in Albany, NY and at WOBM in Toms River, NJ. Phil is a past president of the Empire State Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and has been a broadcast instructor at the New School of Contemporary Radio in Albany and at Monmouth University.

New Jersey's top law enforcement official didn't mince words Thursday as he outlined the latest state strategy to combat deadly violence plaguing Trenton.

"Identify Trenton's gang members and would-be gang members and present them with one simple and clear choice -- prison or an exit strategy from the hell that they have created for themselves and all of the others around them," said acting Attorney General John Hoffman at a news conference outside the city police department.

Since an intensive law enforcement push, including the deployment of state police, began in August, Hoffman said the capital city's murder rate has fallen by 57 percent.

He said those efforts will continue, and a new violence-reduction strategy will provide more than $1 million over the next three years to send outreach workers into high-crime areas to offer counseling and job training.

"If you want help, we will help you. In fact we will bend over backward to help you," Hoffman said. "If you want to continue to wage war on the streets of Trenton, we will come at you with everything that we have got."

The new approach will include added patrols, improved lighting, and closed-circuit cameras in high-risk areas. Regulatory authorities will go after businesses that attract criminal activity.

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